Who is ephraim amu

Ephraim Amu :The Akropong period: Amu the teacher, the composer and theAfricanist militant 1 At Akropong when he was asked to transcribe andteach the traditional song, "Yaa Amponsah", hecame face to face with his own marginalisationin translating African polyrhythmic music withWestern notation.

He attributed this incident toan inadequacy of Western notation. This set him on the trial of researching into Africanmusic, and writing in that idiom.

Simultaneously his researches yielded good knowledgeabout the atenteben and odurugya flutes whosemusic he taught to his students. This he did with the encouragement of Rev. Ephraim Amu :The Akropong period: Amu the teacher, the composer and theAfricanist militant 3 Amu , the staunch Africanist, was not only somusical but he was also a livingpersonification of Africanism.

His life style,thoughts and outlook emphasized thecapabilities and beauty in the Culture andChurch that he was propagating. Ephraim Amu :The Akropong period: Amu the teacher, the composer and theAfricanist militant 4 A practical expression of his love for Africanculture was the composition of Ame wo dzifenyiba, translated into "Yen ara asase ni", analternative to God save the queen, and Landof our birth which used to be sung at thecolonial Empire Day celebrations.

Ephraim Amu :The Akropong period: Amu the teacher, the composer and theAfricanist militant 5 The strain between Amu and the Churchauthorities on his Africanist tendenciesresulted finally in his dismissal fromAkropong in At his farewell ceremony the students sang hiscomposition, Nkradi - Abosomakotre nambrebre. In Achimota he taught Music, Scriptures andAgriculture. Here hetaught single handed.

Occasionally he hadone or two of his past students to assist him,till he retired in , after the School hadbeen transferred again to Winneba. Ephraim Amu The composer and the ethnomusicologist 1 As a result of a memorandum he submitted to Dr. Ephraim Amu was once more recalled fromretirement and attached to the School as aResearch Fellow. Ephraim Amu The composer and the ethnomusicologist 3 The most outstanding and monumental workwas the publication of the introduction to hisTwenty five African songs.

Amu, whose life spanned almost the entire twentieth century, embodied most of the transitions of Christianity in Ghana in the period. He was born in the town of Peki-Avetile, in the Ewe-speaking Volta region of present-day Ghana, where his early upbringing was influenced by the Bremen Mission. He was a composer and musicologist. Having responded personally to the faith at fifteen, Amu desired to be a teacher in church schools. With the outbreak of World War I, the repatriation of German missionaries, and the closing of the Bremen Mission seminaries, Amu was trained as a teacher-catechist under Scottish Presbyterian missionaries at the Abetifi Seminary founded by the Basel Mission.

Amu, the Ewe thus began his intellectual association with Twi language and culture. This was a momentous period for him as he researched the rhythms and meter of African music.

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